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7 Wake Forest J. L. & Pol'y 537 (2017)
The Potential and Limitations of Universal Background Checking for Gun Purchasers

handle is hein.journals/wfjlapo7 and id is 545 raw text is: THE POTENTIAL AND LIMITATIONS OF UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECKING FOR GUN PURCHASERS JAMES B. JACOBS & ZOE FUHRtt Requiring a criminal background check for all gun sales is the single most effective policy for keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people and saving lives. - Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, 20141 Today, the misguided Manchin-Toomey-Schumer proposal failed in the U.S. Senate. This amendment would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest citizens, requiring lifelong friends, neighbors and some family members to get federal government permission to exercise a fundamental right or face prosecution.... [E]xpanding background checks, at gun shows or elsewhere, will not reduce violent crime or keep our kids safe in their schools. - Chris W. Cox, Executive Director, National Rifle Association2 tt James B. Jacobs is the Warren E. Burger Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and the director of the Center for Research in Crime and justice. Zoe Fuhr is a research fellow at the Center for Research in Crime and justice. The authors are working on a book about the 2013 New York SAFE Act. 1. Background Checks, EvERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND, http://everytow nrescarch.org/issuc/background-checks (last visited Apr. 26, 2017). 2. Statement from Chris W Cox on U.S. Senate Defeat of Manchin-Toomey-Schumer Amendment, NAT'L RIFLE Ass'N AM. INST. FOR LEGis. ACTION (Apr. 17, 2013), https://www. nraila.org/articles/20130417/statement-from-chris-w-cox-on-us-senate-defeat-of-manchin-t oomey-schumer-amendment. 537